This was an excellent program. I learned of this tragedy from the A&E special (now on TH-cam) about the Irish famine. (Long program but excellent historical). Must get back to reading more books about Ireland, the land that I long to see one day, but must settle for vicarious travel.. God bless the Irish people.
@@trish3321 I didn’t either😢. I know mayo was very badly hit! These poor people were denied a decent burial and the church turned turned their back on them😢 in fact none of the holocaust victims were were given a decent burial😢.
OMG, my heart aches for those poor soles. I have relatives from Ireland, I can't imagine what they had to endure. But what's upsetting to me is no one was held accountable for this. Even today, there should be some way for the country involved in this horrible act to make amends.
Very heart breaking to hear this story. i also read that the government sold potatoes to other countries while the Irish starved. My grandparents were living at that time. I hate the thoughts of them being hungry .
I’ve never heard this story!😱 Its just terrible what my ancestors went through😢 and to this very day none of them ever got real justice. Most Irish people don’t realise the extent to which they suffered. The gov really did a number all these years, covering up the atrocities that happened. The so-called famine needs to be officially acknowledged as a genocide!
The Irish and her Diaspora have and continue to deal with their tortured history. Other Irish people wherever they don't want to deal with it because it's still too painful. In many ways, it's a very tragic history despite her amazing beauty.
politicians don't want the public asking questions, they dont want them to know this was a well planned genocide because it would turn the country upside down
No horses in the USA 🇺🇸 race I’m Scottish with an Irish ☘️ mother thank God 4 Biden bc he won’t do business with the English if the try & put a border up . C Mayo is were my mum came from & my ancestors died during that walk the genocide. Yes indeed your ancestor made it hence us having the Irish ☘️ in the W house . You will life 2 see Eire as one
I never knew of this horror, it was never taught when I was at school.I remember in history lessons hearing of starving people dying at the side of the road & people being too weak & ill to bury them, mothers lay dead with children still clinging on to them.The utter inhumanity of these officials is sickening to me tears are falling as I write this.
I'm British, and I have to say, the longer I live, the less I like my own country. The Irish are right to say this WASN'T 'The Potato Famine'. Yes, the potato blight wiped out the crop, but not a single person need have died as a result, because at the time, Ireland was growing twice as much food as it needed to feed its people - but most of it was going to Britain. One pretty sickening fact: a Turkish Sultan wanted to give Ireland £10,000, but the British Ambassador asked him not to, and why? Because Queen Victoria had only given £2,000, so the Sultan's gift would 'make her look bad'. So instead, he sent a ship full of food to Ireland, and the crew unloaded it secretly, under cover of darkness, just so as not to embarrass the Queen. Charles Trevelyan, the British politician in charge of famine relief, actually ordered a grain ship bound for Ireland to turn back, and why? He thought the Famine was God's way of 'teaching the Irish a lesson' and he didn't want to interfere with God's work. Unbelievable, but true. The Choctaw Nation, thousands of miles away, cared far more about the suffering of the Irish people than we Brits did - they donated what today would be over $6,000, when they were virtually penniless themselves. No, I'm not proud to be British.
It seems to me that you do care, so perhaps it’s not so much about being a Brit, but the character of the specific individual. Few people can consider themselves so compassionate, and for you to acknowledge that simply means you are one of the rare ones.
The more I read about the Irish Famine and the atrocities caused by our gentry of the time the more ashamed I am to be English. The sad thing is that this is not taught in schools and should be just to prove how inadequate Governments can be. My thoughts are with those who perished along the way and may they rest in peace.
The British Empire is really the most evil empire in the history of mankind. The death toll by starvation in famines caused or worsened by Britain in Ireland, India, and other parts of the colonial empire surpases both the death toll by famine in the Soviet Union and Mao's Chinas.
😟 So heart broken for my ancestors...💔
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This was an excellent program. I learned of this tragedy from the A&E special (now on TH-cam) about the Irish famine. (Long program but excellent historical). Must get back to reading more books about Ireland, the land that I long to see one day, but must settle for vicarious travel.. God bless the Irish people.
I’m from Co. Mayo and I never heard of this😢😢😢😢. They keep insisting it was a Famine but it was a Holocaust and the bastards never paid for it😡😡
Same
@Caroline Do you know what part of Mayo your relatives came from?
I'm from Co. Mayo myself wee town on the coast, I've never heard of this before and my town is only a small drive to Loughborough
@@trish3321 I didn’t either😢. I know mayo was very badly hit! These poor people were denied a decent burial and the church turned turned their back on them😢 in fact none of the holocaust victims were were given a decent burial😢.
The disgusting thing is a lot of the "officials" were Irish !!
OMG, my heart aches for those poor soles. I have relatives from Ireland, I can't imagine what they had to endure. But what's upsetting to me is no one was held accountable for this. Even today, there should be some way for the country involved in this horrible act to make amends.
Very heart breaking to hear this story. i also read that the government sold potatoes to other countries while the Irish starved. My grandparents were living at that time. I hate the thoughts of them being hungry .
I’ve never heard this story!😱 Its just terrible what my ancestors went through😢 and to this very day none of them ever got real justice. Most Irish people don’t realise the extent to which they suffered. The gov really did a number all these years, covering up the atrocities that happened. The so-called famine needs to be officially acknowledged as a genocide!
The Irish and her Diaspora have and continue to deal with their tortured history. Other Irish people wherever they don't want to deal with it because it's still too painful. In many ways, it's a very tragic history despite her amazing beauty.
it was indeed a genocide!
politicians don't want the public asking questions, they dont want them to know this was a well planned genocide because it would turn the country upside down
My Family .....Crying
No horses in the USA 🇺🇸 race I’m Scottish with an Irish ☘️ mother thank God 4 Biden bc he won’t do business with the English if the try & put a border up . C Mayo is were my mum came from & my ancestors died during that walk the genocide. Yes indeed your ancestor made it hence us having the Irish ☘️ in the W house . You will life 2 see Eire as one
@@carolinelees8561 why politics? this is human tragedy
I never knew of this horror, it was never taught when I was at school.I remember in history lessons hearing of starving people dying at the side of the road & people being too weak & ill to bury them, mothers lay dead with children still clinging on to them.The utter inhumanity of these officials is sickening to me tears are falling as I write this.
I'm British, and I have to say, the longer I live, the less I like my own country. The Irish are right to say this WASN'T 'The Potato Famine'. Yes, the potato blight wiped out the crop, but not a single person need have died as a result, because at the time, Ireland was growing twice as much food as it needed to feed its people - but most of it was going to Britain. One pretty sickening fact: a Turkish Sultan wanted to give Ireland £10,000, but the British Ambassador asked him not to, and why? Because Queen Victoria had only given £2,000, so the Sultan's gift would 'make her look bad'. So instead, he sent a ship full of food to Ireland, and the crew unloaded it secretly, under cover of darkness, just so as not to embarrass the Queen.
Charles Trevelyan, the British politician in charge of famine relief, actually ordered a grain ship bound for Ireland to turn back, and why? He thought the Famine was God's way of 'teaching the Irish a lesson' and he didn't want to interfere with God's work. Unbelievable, but true.
The Choctaw Nation, thousands of miles away, cared far more about the suffering of the Irish people than we Brits did - they donated what today would be over $6,000, when they were virtually penniless themselves. No, I'm not proud to be British.
It seems to me that you do care, so perhaps it’s not so much about being a Brit, but the character of the specific individual.
Few people can consider themselves so compassionate, and for you to acknowledge that simply means you are one of the rare ones.
Britain and ireland need more people like you.
It was GENOCIDE but don’t think it won’t happen again😢😢😢😢
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I'll never wrap my head around how indifferent and cruel the Parliamentary English were in the 1800s.
Genocide through starvation. Crimes against humanity.
God Bless whoever this person was who took the time to write that article 😢😢😢
The more I read about the Irish Famine and the atrocities caused by our gentry of the time the more ashamed I am to be English. The sad thing is that this is not taught in schools and should be just to prove how inadequate Governments can be. My thoughts are with those who perished along the way and may they rest in peace.
The British Empire is really the most evil empire in the history of mankind. The death toll by starvation in famines caused or worsened by Britain in Ireland, India, and other parts of the colonial empire surpases both the death toll by famine in the Soviet Union and Mao's Chinas.
The great brittish empire . Showing you how history will never forget. And irelend.
But there were record crops of barley and beef being exported !
1:00 oh look that's where I live louisburgh
terrible. As usual the masters don't give a damn
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My heart breaks for them 😪😪